40 Commemorative Speech Topics

A commemorative speech is designed to celebrate or remember a specific topic. It can pay tribute to an event that happened, a loved one or a place. Your goal with commemorative speech topics is to make other people feel as strongly about something as you do. Your teacher may assign you commemorative speech topics, or you may have to create your own. If you need an idea to get started, we have some topics that you can begin with.

1. The Civil Rights Movement: You can pick major moments of the Civil Rights Movement to commemorate.

2. Women’s Rights Milestones: This is one of the better commemorative speech topics.

3. Mother Teresa: An excellent choice.

4. Bravery: You can commemorate incidences of bravery, brave individuals or just the idea.

5. Veterans: This is a popular option around veterans day.

6. Dedication: Commemorate a person or an event that represents dedication.

7. September 11: This type of speech often happens around September 11 as a way to commemorate the lives lost on 9/11.

8. Compromise: Use incidences or examples of compromise.

9. Strength: There are many different people and examples of strength that you can use.

10. Kindness: Use this if you think that the world could use a little more kindness.

11. Gandhi: Known for his civil disobedience techniques, Gandhi was the inspiration for Martin Luther King’s approach to the Civil Rights Movement.

12. The Creation of the Atomic Bomb: This could be a part of a World War II commemoration or a recognition of the bombs being dropped on Japan.